Smallness
Nouns
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smallness etc. adj.
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littleness etc. (small size) Littleness
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tenuity
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paucity
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fewness etc. (small number) Fewness
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meanness, insignificance (unimportance) Unimportance
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mediocrity, moderation. small quantity, modicum, trace, hint, minimum
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vanishing point
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material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace
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minutiae, details
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look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow
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spark, scintilla, gleam
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touch, cast
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grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture
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inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive
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snip, snippet
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snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag
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chip, chipping
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shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair. nutshell
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thimbleful, spoonful, handful, capful, mouthful
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fragment
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fraction etc. (part) Part
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drop in the ocean. animalcule etc. Littleness. trifle etc. (unimportant thing) Unimportance
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mere nothing, next to nothing
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hardly anything
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just enough to swear by
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the shadow of a shade. finiteness, finite quantity.
Adjectives
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small, little
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diminutive etc. (small in size) Littleness
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minute
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fine
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inconsiderable, paltry etc. (unimportant) Unimportance
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faint etc. (weak) Weakness
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slender, light, slight, scanty, scant, limited
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meager etc. (insufficient) Insufficiency
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sparing
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few etc. Fewness
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low, so-so, middling, tolerable, no great shakes
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below par, under par, below the mark
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at a low ebb
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halfway
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moderate, modest
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tender, subtle. inappreciable, evanescent, infinitesimal, homeopathic, very small
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atomic, corpuscular, microscopic, molecular, subatomic. mere, simple, sheer, stark, bare
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near run. dull, petty, shallow, stolid, ungifted, unintelligent.
Adverbs
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to a small extent [in a small degree], on a small scale
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a little bit, a wee bit
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slightly etc. adj.
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imperceptibly
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miserably, wretchedly
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insufficiently etc. Insufficiency
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imperfectly
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faintly etc. Weakness
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passably, pretty well, well enough. [in a certain or limited degree] partially, in part
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in a certain degree, to a certain degree
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to a certain extent
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comparatively
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some, rather in some degree, in some measure
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something, somewhat
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simply, only, purely, merely
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at least, at the least, at most, at the most
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ever so little, as little as may be, in ever so small a degree
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thus far, within bounds, in a manner, after a fashion, so to speak. almost, nearly, well-nigh, short of, not quite, all but
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near upon, close upon
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near the mark
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within an ace of, within an inch of
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on the brink of
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scarcely, hardly, barely, only just, no more than. about [in an uncertain degree], thereabouts, somewhere about, nearly, say
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be the same, be little more or less. no ways [in no degree], no way, no wise
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not at all, not in the least, not a bit, not a bit of it, not a whit, not a jot, not a shadow
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in no wise, in no respect
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by no means, by no manner of means
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on no account, at no hand.
Phrases
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small sands the mountain, moments make the small sands the mountain, moments make the year" [Young].